Mary and Padraic Colum: Lives and the Dream

Mary and Padraic Colum: Lives and the Dream
  • Free to visit

Saturday, 7 November 2026

Event times:

15:00 - 16:00

Event location:

National Library of Ireland

Event price:

€0.00

About this event

Margaret Kelleher in conversation with Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Join us for this event in collaboration with Dublin Book Festival.

Mary and Padraic Colum: Lives and the Dream (UCD Press) is an illuminating biography of two remarkable Irish writers: Padraic, a poet and playwright whose poems are still remembered today, and Mary, an influential writer and essayist whose work is now unjustly forgotten. Join us as author Margaret Kelleher discusses her book with Laureate of Irish Fiction, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne. The conversation will explore the Colums’ lives and careers, which span the Irish Literary Revival and twentieth-century literary circles in New York, and the challenges and rewards of writing a joint biography.

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